MCGREGOR'S DEATH FEARS PROMPTED HIM TO QUIT SMOKING AND DRINKING

Last updated: Friday, May 22, 2009

MCGREGOR'S DEATH FEARS PROMPTED HIM TO QUIT SMOKING AND DRINKING

ANGELS & DEMONS star EWAN MCGREGOR's fears of an early death prompted him to give up drinking alcohol and smoking.

Ewan McGregor at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Day 5 - press conference for 'Thank You Philip Morris' at the GLAAD Queer Lounge. Park City, Utah - 19.01.09

The Scottish movie hunk quit boozing eight years ago and gave up cigarettes in 2007 - and he hasn't touched either since.

He admits the thought of explaining to his kids that dad was dying because he took his body for granted made him clean up - and kept him away from his vices.

He tells Men's Health magazine, "I wasn't someone who could smoke or drink in moderation, and I recognised that those things would kill me. I started visualising the doctor telling me that I had cancer from smoking or that I was extremely ill because of how much I'd been drinking.

"What kind of regret would I have if I had to tell my children or my wife that I was dying because of something I could have done something about? I didn't want to be that kind of man."

Source: WENN

| Friday, May 22, 2009

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